If you install View Persona Management on standalone (non-View) laptops, make sure that the user profiles are kept synchronized when users take their standalone laptops offline.

To ensure that a standalone laptop user has an up-to-date local profile, you can configure the View Persona Management group policy setting, Enable background download for laptops. This setting downloads the entire user profile to the standalone laptop in the background.

As a best practice, notify your users to make sure that their user profiles are completely downloaded before they disconnect from the network. Tell users to wait for the Background download complete notice to appear on their laptop screens before they disconnect.

To allow the Background download complete notice to be displayed on user laptops, configure the View Persona Management group policy setting, Show critical errors to users via tray icon alerts.

If a user disconnects from the network before the profile download is complete, the local profile and remote profile might become unsynchronized. While the user is offline, the user might update a local file that was not fully downloaded. When the user reconnects to the network, the local profile is uploaded, overwriting the remote profile. Data that was in the original remote profile might be lost.

The Classic Administrative Templates (ADM) folder appears only in Windows Vista or later and Windows Server 2008 or later releases.

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For standalone laptops, you must use a non-View method to notify users when they log in.

For example, you might distribute this message: Your personal data is dynamically downloaded to your laptop
after you log in. Make sure your personal data has finished downloading before you disconnect your laptop from the network. A "Background download complete" notice pops up when your personal data finishes downloading.